Michigan · Nonprofit
MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM
MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,053,438 to it, the largest being GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,040,938). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- Revenue FY2025
- $150k
- Funders on record
- 2
- Grants received
- $1.1M
- Net assets
- $1.6M
What Midwest Miniatures Museum does
Mission
The mission of the Midwest Miniatures Museum is to develop and operate the museum, to show public miniatures as both an educational or therapeutic endeavor and as fine art in its construction and display, and to work cooperatively with artists and educational organizations to foster the appreciation of quality.
As stated on its FY2025 Form 990.
Program
The Midwest Miniatures Museum preserves and exhibits a collection of fine art miniatures including scale replicas of historic buildings, doll houses, room boxes, and collections of individual pieces of decorative art, most notably miniature silver. Its purpose is to exhibit miniatures in an educational context for the public, and to foster their appreciation as works of art used in a myriad of ways.
$235,001 spent$31,097 earned by the program100% of program spending
The program described on its FY2025 Form 990. Program spending in total: $235,001.
The organization over time
Each line starts at 100 in 2018, so what you read is the shape rather than the size: 150 means half as much again as 2018, 50 means half. The number beside each label in the key is where it ended. The shaded band is where the middle 50% of its peers' revenue would sit, given their growth.
Balance sheet
Total assets and total liabilities at each year end, in dollars. The largest one-year move in total assets was 2023 to 2024, from $2.1M to $1.7M (−20%).
How it's funded, over time
Each bar is one year's revenue split into where it came from, and every bar is the same height — these are shares, not amounts, so a year that raised twice as much looks the same size. Hover a bar for the split.
Government-grant reliance: 2021 16% · 2022 14%. Grants only. Government contracts and fees sit inside program revenue.
58% of MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM’s revenue is contributions — about as donation-reliant as the typical peer (64% for the typical peer).
Surplus & reserves
Operating surplus or deficit each year, and months of liquidity in hand. 8 of the last 8 reported years ran a deficit.
reserve
Leadership and staff
The officers, directors, trustees and key employees listed on each return. Joined and no longer listed compare each filing with the year before, matching people by surname and first initial; a year after a gap, or a roster under three people, has no comparison.
Board chair
Ina Whitney
Chair
As listed on its FY2025 Form 990.
Who funds it, year by year
2020 → 2023: the base held at 1 funder, grant income rose $5k → $125k.
1 of 2 of your funders are donor-advised or pass-through sponsors (tagged DAF) — 99% of grant dollars received. That money is really individual donors directing a sponsor; the institutions to cultivate are the non-DAF funders.
From the IRS filings of MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM’s funders (the co-funder graph). Association, not causation. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
How concentrated its funding is
MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM leans on a few funders — its largest provides 99% of grant income and the top three 100%; half comes from just 1 funder.
the vertical line marks half of all grant income — 1 funder to its left
100% of the income these shares are computed over arrives through pass-through sponsors or from payers whose filings do not say what kind of payment it is. Concentration is still measured over all of it, because the money is real; what it does not support is a claim about how many institutions have chosen to fund MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM.
Largest funder’s share by year: 2020 100% · 2021 100% · 2022 100% · 2023 100% — broadly stable.
“Effective funders” = inverse Herfindahl index (1 / Σ shareᵢ²) — the number of equal-sized funders that would give the same concentration. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Where its funders are
99% of MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM's grant income arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors, whose addresses record where the money is held rather than where the donor is. Of the $13k that is directly attributable, 100% of it comes from Michigan funders.
In-state vs out-of-state, by year
Funder states come from each funder’s own filing. $1.0M arriving through sponsors registered in 1 state is excluded from the map and the split above: a sponsor holds money on a donor’s behalf, so its registered address would place those dollars somewhere no donor need ever have been. Trends are read to FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving. FY2024–FY2026 are still being filed and are shown unshaded; they do not move any figure on this page.
Against its field
MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM's revenue grew 46% between 2018 and 2025.
this organization peer median middle 50% of peers· 12,262 arts & culture nonprofits $100k–$1M, FY2025
Government funding MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM receives
Grants and contracts to this organization from federal (USASpending) and state checkbooks, reconciled to its EIN. $72k on record.
- Institute of Museum and Library Services$72k
Federal grants vs contracts are distinguished; state line items keep their reported category. Matched by name + geography (the BMF), so coverage is partial and precision-first.
Organizations like MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM
Organizations whose mission and program text most resemble this one, by semantic similarity over every organization in the US filings — the closest peers, and often the clearest route to shared or prospective funders.
In Michigan
Nationally
Read directly from this organization’s own Form 990, as neutral context.
Where the money goes
75% of spending goes to programs.
Governance
Public support
51%
Share of support from the public (Schedule A) — the basis for its public-charity status.
Footprint & structure
Files a return copy in 1 state
Screen this organization
A dated, signed PDF of the compliance screen for MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM: IRS status (Business Master File, Publication 78, auto-revocation), the OFAC sanctions lists, the Internal Revenue Bulletin, and California registration, with the Rev. Proc. 2018-32 §8.01 reliance elements stated element by element. Generated from the current files at the moment you download it.
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Questions and answers
- Who funds MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM?
- MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM (Michigan) receives grants from 2 organizations whose IRS filings report $1,053,438 to it, the largest being GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC ($1,040,938). 2 of them have funded it in more than one year, and 99% of the money arrives through donor-advised or pass-through sponsors rather than from an institution directly.
- How many funders does MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM have?
- IRS filings report 2 organizations giving $1,053,438 in grants to MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM, 2 of which have funded it in more than one year.
- Who is the largest funder of MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM?
- GRAND HAVEN AREA COMMUNITY FOUNDATION INC is the largest funder on record, with $1,040,938 in grants. The full list of funders is on this page.
- How can an organization like MIDWEST MINIATURES MUSEUM find more funders?
- Start with the funders already giving here, then look at the foundations that back similar organizations in Michigan. The funding by cause and by state pages list the largest funders for a given area and how to approach them.
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These figures are read directly from IRS Form 990 / 990-PF e-file XML: this organization’s own return for FY2025 (financials across 2018–2025), and the filings of 2 funders that report grants to it. “On record” means captured in the filings we have parsed — a funder that does not e-file, or whose grant detail is not itemized, will not appear. Filings run roughly 12–24 months behind. Trends on this page end at FY2023, the last fiscal year that has finished arriving; later years are shown and marked, and move no figure. Data on this page was exported October 22, 2026. What this page cannot tell you · view filing